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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · 16d

📝Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) Volume 44, Issue 3 is now out!
The new issue features the Perspectives on Displacement Paper on The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection by Romola Sanyal, among other articles
🔗 Read the issue online: academic.oup.com/rsq/issue/44/3

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · 22d

What do RSQ reviewers look for:

🔹 Does it engage refugee & forced migration debates?
🔹Does it go beyond description and add fresh insights?
🔹 Clear intro, argument, conclusion, sound methodology?
🔹 RSQ style guide, references, submission rules?

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First-Time Authors: What Do Reviewers Look For?

Authors often ask what editors and reviewers look for in a submission to the RSQ. The following pointers may help orient (new) authors who are keen to publish i

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · 27d

📢 Call for Extended Abstracts
Refugee Survey Quarterly invites extended abstracts (max 600 words) for its Perspectives on Displacement series.
📌 Deadline: 29 September 2025
📧 Submissions: [email protected]
More details: academic.oup.com/rsq/pages/Ge...

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢 New in Refugee Survey Quarterly:
“Agency in Action: Mobilisation Efforts of South Sudanese Refugees in Ethiopia” by Samuel Zewdie Hagos
🔗 Read More: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢 Call for Extended Abstracts – Refugee Survey Quarterly’s Perspectives on Displacement
If you would be interested in writing a piece for the Perspectives on Displacement series, for publication in late 2026, please submit an extended abstract (maximum 600 words)
📝 Deadline: 29 September 2025.

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Aug 22

📢 Call for Short Responses
We invite short responses to Dr. Romola Sanyal's article, The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection
See: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...
✅ Responses should be between 1,000 and 2,500 words submitted via the RSQ website: academic.oup.com/rsq

The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection

Abstract. Space is foundational to questions of refuge and asylum, but this space is one of conditional hospitality, extended to those deemed worthy of pro

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Aug 19

New Advance Article from our Perspectives on Displacement series [OPEN ACCESS]
Romola Sanyal examines The Space that Refuge Makes: Rethinking Displacements and Protection
🔗Read more: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Aug 1

📢New Advance Article [OPEN ACCESS]
‘Vulnerability’ in Decisions on International Protection in Austria: A Contribution to Equality?
By Margit Ammer and Monika Mayrhofer
🔗Read More: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...

#RefugeeProtection

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Jul 17

New Advance Article (OPEN ACCESS)
Spectrums of Power: The Plight of Venezuelan Refugees in Colombia
By James Rochlin
🔗 Read More: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Jul 16

New Advance Article [OPEN ACCESS]
Rethinking Mass Influx and Derogation in the Age of AI: The Role of New Technologies in Redefining Crisis, Protection and State Obligations
By Meltem Ineli Ciger
🔗Read More: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Jul 7

📄From RSQ Volume 44, Issue 2
Failing Asylum-Seekers: Limited Judicial Review of Refugee Status Determination Decisions in Brazil (OPEN ACCESS)
By Mariana Ferolla Vallandro do Valle @gvagrad.bsky.social
🔗Read more: academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Jul 2

📄From RSQ Volume 44, Issue 2
"Criminalisation and Control: Mediterranean Maritime Search and Rescue Workers’ Perceptions of Uses of Law" (Open Access)
By Neil Graffin, Matt Howard and Joanne Vincett
🔗Read more: academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...

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Refugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · Jun 30

Read the #RLI blog series on 'Deserters, Draft Evaders and Refugee Law' including this piece:

'Slave Soldiers and their Protection under International Refugee Law' written by Dr Sara Arapiles.

rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/06/18/s...

#Soldiers #Military #InternationalRefugeeLaw

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Jun 30

📄From RSQ Volume 44, Issue 2
"Evacuations as Displacement: Conceptual and Legal Challenges" by Jane McAdam @kaldorcentre.bsky.social
🔗Read more: academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Jun 27

📝 If you are a first-time author or early-career researcher, understanding what peer reviewers look for is essential to navigating academic publishing.
We’ve just published a new piece: “First-Time Authors: What Do Reviewers Look For?”
🔗 Read the article here: academic.oup.com/rsq/pages/fi...

First-Time Authors: What Do Reviewers Look For?

Authors often ask what editors and reviewers look for in a submission to the RSQ. The following pointers may help orient (new) authors who are keen to publish i

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Jun 26

📝Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ) Volume 44, Issue 2 is now out!
The new issue features: Perspectives on Displacement Paper Series responding to David Owen’s: “From Forced Migration to Displacement?” and Six original research articles.
📄 Contents below
🔗 Read the issue online: lnkd.in/dFWfc4FP

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 New Issue Alert!
📘 Refugee Survey Quarterly – Volume 44, Issue 2 (2025) – is now out!
🆓 Enjoy open access to select articles in this issue.
🖥️ Read it online: lnkd.in/dKuwNke5

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Refugee Law Initiative @rli-sas.bsky.social · Jun 24

New on the #RLI blog:

Part three of a series - 'Conscience vs. State: The Evolving Legal Status of Conscientious Objectors in International Refugee Law' written by Prof Özgür Heval Çɪnar

rli.blogs.sas.ac.uk/2025/06/18/c...

#InternationalRefugeeLaw #RefugeeStatus #MilitaryActions #Military

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Eleanor Paynter @eleanorbpaynter.net · Jun 24

My piece on the need for frameworks that embrace critical, decolonial, non-state-centric approaches is now up as "editor's choice" & free to download! @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social

It's a response to Owen's invitation to think w "displacement" as framing concept academic.oup.com/rsq/article/...

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Jun 24

📢 Great news from Refugee Survey Quarterly (RSQ)!

Our 2024 journal metrics are in:
📈 Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.2
📈 5-Year Impact Factor (Clarivate): 2.3
📈 CiteScore: 3.0

Thanks to our amazing authors, reviewers & readers for making this possible!

🔗 Read & submit here: academic.oup.com/rsq

Refugee Survey Quarterly | Oxford Academic

Publishes research focusing on the challenges of forced migration from multidisciplinary and policy-oriented perspectives. The journal provides a vehicle for wide-ranging analyses and exploration of f...

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University of London Press @uolpress.bsky.social · Jun 20

For World Refugee Day, we'd like to highlight this recent #OpenAccess title in the #CriticalHumanRightsStudies series, published with @hrc-sas.bsky.social & @icws-sas.bsky.social: #Refugee Reception in Southern Africa by @nicholasmaple.bsky.social.

Available here:
uolpress.co.uk/book/refugee...

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Ali Bhagat @alibhagat.bsky.social · Jun 6

Pleased to have my short piece “Towards Global Displacement Studies?” Out in @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social . The article is a response to David Owen’s thought-provoking article “From Forced Migration to Displacement?” :https://academic.oup.com/rsq/article/doi/10.1093/rsq/hdaf005/8157466

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RSQ @refugeesurveyquart.bsky.social · Jun 6

New on our Advance Articles Series: Towards Global Displacement Studies?: A Response to Owen's 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?' by @alibhagat.bsky.social
Read the Full Article: doi.org/10.1093/rsq/...

Towards Global Displacement Studies?: A Response to Owen's 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?'

Abstract. This response advocates for the conceptual utility of displacement and the potential emergence of Global Displacement Studies (GDS). I argue that

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Eleanor Paynter @eleanorbpaynter.net · Jun 3

"no framing is neutral & reproducing state- & institution-driven terms or outputs upholds the world they inscribe"

In this piece just out with Refugee Survey Quarterly, I take up David Owen's discussion of "displacement" as field-framing concept 1/

free access: academic.oup.com/rsq/advance-...

Refuting State-Centric Framings: Response to David Owen’s 'From Forced Migration to Displacement?'

Abstract. Building on Owen’s discussion of “displacement” as a potential reorienting concept for Forced Migration Studies, and recognising the interdiscipl

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